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In the rapidly evolving realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technologies, a pressing issue confronts academic scholars and social scientists-the profound consequences of AI adoption within the intricate structures of society. Despite its pervasive influence, this critical topic remains largely unexplored in academic circles, leaving a significant knowledge gap regarding how AI reshapes human interactions, institutions, and the fa...

This book discusses how pleasure, as an emotional motivation, can play a leading role in improving the learning of new cognitive skills and abilities. Set in a research center orientated to innovate educative techniques for optimizing the learning process, this case study is focusing on the power of pleasure (joy) as a strategy to better the standard education systems in Argentina and beyond. This editorial project is based on an efficient exp...

Maximiliano Korstanje presents an overview and analysis of the work of the Argentinian Sociologist and physician, José Ingenieros (1877-1925). Korstanje takes in turn the key areas of Ingenieros's work and examines how his thinking can be brought to bear on the social challenges of today.

Looks at how global threats affect the tourism industry and offers tools and strategies for meeting these challenges. It presents case scenarios and strategies for postcolonial, post-conflict, and post-disaster destinations to encourage travel and tourism. Updated with new research and chapters on the COVID-19 pandemic impact on tourism.

This book discusses how pleasure, as an emotional motivation, can play a leading role in improving the learning of new cognitive skills and abilities. Set in a research center orientated to innovate educative techniques for optimizing the learning process, this case study is focusing on the power of pleasure (joy) as a strategy to better the standard education systems in Argentina and beyond. This editorial project is based on an efficient exp...

Tourism Through Troubled Times is an illuminating read for all scholars of Tourism Studies, Hospitality Management, and the Sociology of Tourism, as well as practitioners and managers within the hospitality sector, and gives clear insights into the industry's next steps forward.

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Focuses on the tourism industry in conjunction with the impact of COVID-19. It offers a new conceptualization and theorization of tourism and offers parallels with other crises (such as 9-11). Topics include robotics in the hospitality industry, space tourism, how communication technologies can benefit third world tourism, etc.

Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism: Toward a New Management Approach explores the research and suggests new approaches with topics such as looking at tourism as a vehicle toward recovery, educating tourists at the pre-visit stage, post-colonial branding and self-branding, using sports tourism and food events.

Virus Outbreaks and Tourism Mobility: Strategies to Counter Global Health Hazards uses innovative and cutting-edge research to map out the background and impacts of national, regional and international viral outbreaks focusing on new viewpoints to help build effective strategic responses to global health hazards.

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This book centers on the power of mythical narratives and technology in creating the idea of a world that should be purged. The introduction of sin, the fall and other disruptive conflict have led mankind towards a world of scarcity, where suffering and sacrifice prevail. The author analyzes this apocalypse theory, which describes humans' perversion by the use of technology, self-consciousness and knowledge. Based on an anthropological viewpoi...

The tourism industry has evolved and maturated over the recent years. Today, tourism is not only a leading industry but also a consolidated commercial activity worldwide. Unfortunately, the turn of the century has accelerated a number of global risks, placing the tourism industry in jeopardy. Scholars adopted an economics-based paradigm, which has focused on the commercial nature of tourism as a benefactor of local economies, while terrorists ...

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Over recent years, unforeseen global risks have placed the future of a growing tourism industry in jeopardy. From lethal virus outbreaks to multiple accounts of international violence, policymakers and specialists have acknowledged the importance of working on an agenda that balances the stability of international tourist destinations. Impact of Risk Perception Theory and Terrorism on Tourism Security: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a ...

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“Maximiliano Korstanje weaves a brilliant reflective documentary of our terror-driven world culture.  Reading his book will stimulate your thinking about what we need to do to better understand and improve our fatalistically failing future.” —Kenneth David Strang, Editor in Chief, Int. Journal of Risk and Contingency Management, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA   “This book is a must read. More importantly, it is topical to ...

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This book explores how the contemporary threat of terrorism is eroding the concept of hospitality in the West. Going beyond the immediate effects of terrorism that are daily portrayed in the media and have shaped the foreign policy agenda of politicians in Europe and the US, this study explores the conceptual framework of how terrorism emerged and expanded within the West and shows how it interacts with, and targets, leisure consumerism and th...